Device for facilitating the handling of coin.



S. B. COLBY.

1 DEVICE FOR FACILITATING THE HANDLING OF 00m.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 19, 1913.

1,089,328, Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

Witnesses Inventor 0%l/ Attorneys TED STATES @hhlQE.

STELLA B. COLBY, F DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO "WILLIS H. COLBY, 015 DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

DEVICE FOR FACILITATING THE HANDLING OF COIN.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 19, 1913.

Patented Mar. 3, Mild.

Serial no. 755,458.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, STELLA B. COLBY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and Sitate of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Device for Facilitating the Handling of Coin, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improve ments in devices for facilitating the handling of coins, one object of the present invention being the provision of a device of this character, which is especially adapted to be used at soda fountains, bars and the like, where the coins taken in payment may be deposited upon the present device to be operated by the cashier to receive the coin, the change being placed upon the same device and operated in an opposite direction to be delivered to the customer, there being novel means for maintaining the tray resiliently in a horizontal plane, so that the coin placed thereupon will remain until the tray is tilted in one of the delivering directions.

A further object of the present invention is the provision of an ornamental device of this character, which may be used as an advertising device and at the same time be useful in handling change from the customer to the store keeper, and vice versa.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of the complete device, dotted lines showing both tilted positions of the tray. Fig. 2 is an end view. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the coin tray. ldig. 4: is a perspective view of the spring adjusting plate. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail view of the plate applied.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates the base, which has upstanding therefrom the rectangular in cross-section shaped pedestal or support 2, whose upper end is straddled by means of the two spaced plates or lugs 3 which are connected thereto through the means of the pivot 4. The

plates 3 are connected to and carry the coin receiving and delivery tray 5, which is preferably composed of a supporting body 6 with the guiding edges 7, said edges converging in opposite directions from a central point to provide the delivery spout 8 at opposite ends of the tray, said delivery spout ends being spaced by the bridging or thumb engaging strips 9 so that the tray may be t1lted in either direction to deposit and direct the coin through the spout into the hand. The upper surface of the base is preferably covered by glass, as at 10, so that advertising matter may be disposed upon the base below the glass and be in view at all times. Connected to the outer face of the respective lugs are the hooks 11, the upper end of the operating springs 12 being connected to these hooks and extending downwardly to be connected to the oppositely disposed hooks 11 carried upon the lower portion of the supporting member. By this means the two springs tend to hold the tray in a horizontal plane as the point of connection to the lugs is below the pivotal point and thus exerts a tension at all times to maintain the tray in such position so that when coins are primarily deposited thereupon, the same will not be delivered through or out of the tray unless the tray is tilted to the dotted line positions as shown in Fig. l.

in order to provide a means for regulating the tension and angular position of the springs so as to adjust the springs to at all times properly maintain the tray in a horizontal plane, the two plates 13, which are slotted as at 14, for the reception of the screws 15 are connected to the supporting member and are provided with the offset ends 16 which are slotted to receive the springs. By this means either one of the respective plates may be adjusted and thus cause the spring engaged thereby to be flexed out of a vertical line, thus regulating the direction. of pull and the connection of the spring to one of the lugs and at the same time increasing the tension of the springs.

What is claimed is: A device of this character, including a base, a rectangular post connected thereto and extending vertically therefrom, a coin receiving and delivering tray substantially hexagonal in shape and provided with oppositely disposed coin outlets, a pair of spaced lugs connected to and depending from the under side of the tray centrally thereof, said lugs straddling the upper end of the post, a pin pivotally connecting the lugs to the post, two springs one connected to each lug below the pivotal point thereof, the lower terminal of the spring being connected to the post, and a single independent means for adjust-- ing each spring connected to the post intermediate the ends of the spring, each of said means, comprising a plate having an elongated slot, a screw fitting in the slot to secure the plate adjnstably to the post, and two ofiset spaced spring receiving fingers carried by the plate for engaging the spring interinediate its ends and at a point near the lower connection thereof, whereby when the plate is adjusted due to the screw and the slot, the tension of the spring is varied according to the flexing thereof.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto atfixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

STELLA B. COLBY.

Witnesses:

LEONA HUNT, T. D. BARnow.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, I). G. 

